God1000:
Why Rwanda? Rwandan government shouldn't have accepted such thing from UK

I sincerely don't know how this will benefit Rwanda

That the government of Rwanda is not pushing back indicates there must be some benefits for the Rwandan government - not necessarily the Rwandan people. Governments are the source of literally all the problems on earth.

OALandAgents:
Sounds like the soldier was off duty, so was it really necessary to mention that he was a soldier?

Whether he is on or off duty, he remains a soldier provided he is still on the payroll of the government and being paid with tax payer money. The action of the idiot is not new. Soldiers still live in the military era in their brainwashed heads. They have no sense of service until they are commanded by a superior officer. It is not their fault. When you serve a fool or take orders from a fool, you have to be a fool to keep getting your paychecks.

Good01:

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/04/im-disappointed-obasanjo-jonathan-watching-pdp-bleed-sowunmi/amp/

The answer is simple. OBJ cannot kill Atiku as Atiku is a fish too big to eat and Atiku has taken over PDP. As for Jonathan, ma guy don see shege pro max. After years of calling him Jona-daft, incompetent buffoon, and a host of other terrible names and after years of seeing first hand that he is a Tilapia fish in the tank full of sharks, he decided to respect himself and fade into silence.

Handsomebb:
If them shoot the guy now, them go say police don kill person.

Some people no do reach this one dem don dey 6ft.

Baba den no fit shoot anyhow for North oh, if na North this thing dey happen. Den no born police well ohh. If den try am, the mob wey go show up, ehn AK 47 go pick race ohh.

LocalFARMERS:
A man dressed in mufti threaten to killa DPO and also threaten other police officers. The reason for his action is not known. But the man is seeing carrying a Knife and a Stone.


No matter what, we must respect our Police at all levels


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGg_DAWRQeE

The only way to get respect in this country is to run mad. If you add madness to whatever you are doing you will be respected by the army, navy, airforce, police, civil defense, customs, NDLEA, and FRSC. You can get anything you want, whenever you want it...all you just need to do is add MADNESS to what you are doing. Add a daily dose of madness to all that you do in Nigeria and you will make it fast. Nobody will stand in your way.

Honestey:
His constituents have wasted a good slot on a coward who can't speak on budget he was part of its passing into law.
Let it be known, our reps and senators have become nothing but school boys in Abuja who dare not speak out their minds for fear of a wicked teacher.

Have become? You say it like this is not how it has been since 1960 when we started this nonsense we call Nigeria. Budget padding is the norm. It will continue till the end of time unless the Nigerian people repent. 99% of the Nigerians complaining about the state of the country will do the exact same thing these fiends in power are currently doing. This is why Nigeria will keep accelerating in the wrong direction until it self-destructs.

ManirBK:
There is massive looting of palliatives grains and other stuff just now in Birnin kebbi Kara Market. The remaining palliatives grains means for peaple were diverted or sold to Marketers in Birnin kebbi.

The shops in Kara Market where the palliatives were hide and kept were attacked by some angry youth with looters making away with foodstuffs and other items.

Armed policemen on guard duty at the market fired gunshots in the air and chased away the youth. For me, the officials that diverted the palliatives should be arrested and prosecuted

You can trust black man to cast black man.

Chrisrare:
Don't beat yourself too much, it takes a mathematical guru to understand and solve the question.

Understanding the question is easy. You are basically asking for a proof of e.

Winterhaven:
Good one. I'm expecting the workings.

Modified:
This is the correct answer. Thanks to rillchritty for solving the question.

ps: the answer is far from zero.

Which workings? Just say you want an analytical proof of the derivation of e.

Any help will be appreciated.

Namaster:
Nice initiative. Especially if funds are not diverted into private pockets.

It'll be hard this time because it is easier to protest against a state government than against a federal government.

Exousiang01:

It was because of those building collapsing that the government became hard with the inspections.
You people should try thinking before talking.
Did you not see that the engineers were arrested the last time?

...but when the government makes the process tedious, long, and expensive you can expect that many will do anything to evade the process and it will make properties very costly. Imagine how many agencies of government you have business with and how much you will spend just to get approvals. The government is there to make life easy for its citizens, not make them miserable...at this rate, no one with a disposable monthly income of less than 1 million naira can dream of owning a house yet I believe I won't be far off the mark if I guess that this accounts for at least 80% of Nigerians.

Vischy:
One of the reasons l hate APC is the fact that they share sensitive government positions to cronies instead of capable hands that will work for the masses.

APC? Is that not the normal Nigerian behavior? Almost everybody does it and those who don't do it will be cursed out by their friends and family. Corruption is a culture in this country.

Omooba77:
Can God be Wicked to allow this hardship in Nigeria?

It is judgment for our wickedness. A lot of Nigerians are wicked. Our leaders are our punishment. There is hardly any Nigerian that will not steal public funds if given the opportunity. The money that was involved in a fraudulent activity in the ministry of humanitarian affairs was initially 585m naira now it has jumped to 30b naira. How can we be so heartless. There are people here who won't mind sleeping with their neighbor's wife. There are people here who won't mind carting away with people's money through crowd-funding. The moment a person rises his friends and family will bewitch him out of envy. Men are lying to young girls sleeping with them, making them abort continuously, destroying them and refusing to marry them. How can we continue in all these things and expect Nigeria as a whole to be good. As long as we keep doing evil and calling it good the land will be cursed for generations until we repent as a nation.

We have not yet seen suffering oh. This is just the beginning. A time will come that it will be a nightmare stepping outside your house. As long as we want to continue to be evil, God will give us over to our desires.

T8ksy:


Going by your closing statement that you bolded above, no point in this discussion as you have clearly opined that black people are all corrupt and as such can't do anything to better the lives of their people.

Seems to me like the same narratives our erstwhile colonialists perpetuated to justify their barbaric actions in the black world. Even their Bible says as much - black people can't rule themselves.

This dude Eldee sang this song over a decade ago and today we are still singing the same song only that it is much much worse in Nigeria. I need you to listen to it and check where in the song the singer ever referenced colonialists as the source of our problem. Several musicians have been singing and singing about the hardship in this country but the wickedness in the hearts of our leaders will not let them change for good.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBxUJd_cI40?si=GYYrCsUJ1u_Q_Cd_

T8ksy:


Going by your closing statement that you bolded above, no point in this discussion as you have clearly opined that black people are all corrupt and as such can't doanything to better the lives of their people.

Seems to me like the same narratives our erstwhile colonialists perpetuated to justify their barbaric actions in the black world. Even their Bible says as much - black people can't rule themselves.

See another proof to show that you Nigerians and Africans are a curse to yourselves. Did colonialists do this one too?

Human rights activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN Femi Falana, has claimed that in a 2020 report, the former Auditor General of the Federation disclosed that $4 billion from Nigerian reserves is missing and that $3.5 billion from an IMF loan was stolen.


He added that Mr. Cardoso, the governor of the central bank, had admitted that $2.4 billion of the bank’s purported $7 billion in debt was unjustified.

He stated further that the Supreme Court’s in a economic judgment had directed the Nigerian government to collect $62 billion outstanding royalties from six international oil companies. He urged the government to demonstrate courage and political will in enforcing the judgment and collecting the funds.

He said in an interview with Channels TV, ”The report of the auditor general of the federation submitted to the National assembly in 2020 and on which no action was taken.


The Former AGF revealed that $4Bn yanked off from Nigerian reserves cannot be located. And he also revealed that $3.5 billion loan taken from the IMF was stolen by yet-to-be-identified individuals. I’m talking of 7.5 billion dollars.

The governor of the Central bank, Mr Cardoso has also disclosed that out of the 7 billion dollars alleged indebtedness of the bank, 2.4 billion dollars cannot be justified. I’m also surprised that my colleagues are not interested in the judgment of the Supreme Court on the economy.

The Supreme Court ruled and ordered the government of Nigeria to collect outstanding royalties from the oil majors. But the government has not enforced that judgment of collecting 62 billion dollars from six international oil companies. I hope the government will have the courage and political will to collect those funds.


Source

T8ksy:



I want you to check those European
countries that are successful now and I bet you, they are ALL former colonialists. It's instructive to note that these countries are still keeping a firm grip on their former Colonies, albeit covertly, till date.

Remember Indirect rule - the Brits did a study in the mid-40s (when it became obvious that they will have to give up their Colonies in africa) to ensure they keep their jolly on the Colonies. It was incorporated into our history school curriculum. I was in a sure question in our Waec exam, then. I remember doing a test on the indirect rule study in Nigeria and the result is what is panning out now.

The French called theirs Assimilation. Do you notice what's going on in Francophone countries now. How France is still plundering those countries resources. For instance, there's this mineral resource abundant in Niger which is sold on the world market for $200 per lb but France, based on the agreement they signed with their former Colonies before granting them independence, only pay 80cents per lb!

I will also like you to check out Haiti- yhe 1st nlack country to attain independence in 1804 from yhe same French country and am sure you will find out why that country is still very impoverish, over 2 centuries after the fact.
Let me just stop here for now. Before I fo so, I leave uou with this quote from Wiston Churchill ......" For Europe to prosper, we must put disarray among Africans".

Oga let's not fool ourselves. There is no firm grip by colonists on former colonies. Japan was invaded and occupied by the US for about a decade yet Japan has risen to become a superpower. Japan did not give excuses or whine and cry racism or colonialism rather they took their future into their own hands and made a powerful economy. At a time when other economies were struggling, Japan was considered an economic miracle growing at staggering rates. African leaders are incredibly corrupt. I once saw an estimate of about 600 billion dollars that Nigeria made from crude oil and all that money has been squandered away. The other day a top tax official claimed that over 10 trillion naira was spent on refineries that are not working. Tell me is that also the result of colonialism and imperialism? Over 10 trillion naira squandered by the very people elected to run the country and you are here pointing at the white man instead of pointing at the kleptocrats you voted into office. Nigeria has an inferred 2.75 billion metric tonnes of coal, holds over 180 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, has over 3800km of waterways that are navigable and we a vast amount of uninhabited land in Northern Nigeria that receives sunlight for about 8 hours yet despite all these immense resources hardly have we generated and consumed more than 5000 MW of electricity. Is that not the height of madness of a country? Yet you want to point fingers at colonists. Does that make sense. Singapore was colonized for over a decade until 1958 by the UK about the same era when Nigeria received independence and yet Singapore in recent times generates almost 13000 MW of electricity and it has a geographical size of 734 square kilometers and a population of about 6 million not up to size of Lagos state in terms of geographical size and population. We need to stop deceiving ourselves. We have deluded ourselves for far too long. We are the enemy of ourselves. We are the curse of the land. We are the reason Nigeria and indeed Africa is not working and will never work. There are at least twice as many Africans waiting in line to steal and plunder than there are Africans who are currently stealing and plundering. Many of us complaining about the hardship in Nigeria will do far far worse if we were allowed to lead. The old, young, men, and women are all corrupt in Africa. We deserve our leaders and we deserve the hardship because as a people we epitomize evil in all its ramifications.

T8ksy:



Pray, tell us how the Africans see the world before the advent of "the master's eyes"?

Europeans have been plundering the wealth of Africa for the past 500 years (and are still doing till date). If the reverse was the case, Europe will be more impoverished than Africa is, currently

Do you think Europe can in this day and age plunder an African country's wealth without the assistance of African leaders? Look at Africa today. It is led by Africans but doing so terribly. Just take a look at Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. They are being led by Africans yet they are doing terribly. Nigeria was rightly referred to as the "generator republic" yet we have vast expanse of land in Northern Nigeria for solar and wind farms, vast water bodies and rivers in the South for hydroelectric power, vast reserves of natural gas in the South South of Nigeria and vast amounts of coal in Eastern Nigeria yet Nigeria generates and consumes less than 5000MW of electricity since 1958. This is a true testament to the two major diseases plaguing Africa - crabs-in-a-bucket and every-man-for-himself syndrome. Africans cannot unite on anything without one of them thinking of how to outwit and outdo other Africans. If you want to genocide any African country, all you need do is dump a truck full of fake dollars and a truck full of weapons in the heart of that African country and they will genocide themselves very quickly.

redsun:
Because dem they pray to Jesus,mohammad, babalawo for their daily bread too much! They are using their nature-given brains to adapt and evolve sustainably.

You are not correct. If this is true then how are African migrants in the US, Canada, and the UK becoming more and more successful? Many of them are Christians, Muslims, or religious in one way or the other so your point is not valid. Africans are smart but they cannot work together. An African can thrive if he is not surrounded by fellow Africans. I have noticed that even racists white folks cannot stop Africans from succeeding in other climes but a fellow African is always ready to betray his kith and kin for jealousy or greed.

Yohnshogun:
Good day people, please I want to know why Africans are so poor. We see pictures of bony children everytime. Why is there poverty and how can we solve it.

Most of Sub-Saharan Africa's population is poor because of the crabs-in-a-bucket and every-man-for-himself syndrome. Africans cannot work together to generate a solution that will end poverty. If you create a committee to pool funds from donors, philanthropists, faith-based institutions etc to provide solutions to the poverty problem in Africa you will find some Africans within that committee who will be hell-bent on stealing at least 80% of the money and doing absolutely nothing. I once shared an idea for pooling resources to start a business that could generate income for the participants. I quickly got responses from interested parties but I noticed that most of them wanted a few people to do the work while they reap the rewards. The initiative died not long after.

proeast:
I read that Niger state governor has banned sale of food produce in wholesale. This same governor once muted the idea of controlling proceeds of electricity generated from Kainji and Shiroro dams.

What right does a governor have to ban sale of foodstuffs in wholesale? Especially in a country facing food crises and other existential threats?!

For those who may not have deciphered, this obnoxious policy is targeted at Southerners! It is the height of wickedness to enjoy oil and gas proceeds from the South free of charge only to place embargo on sale of foods grown in your own area.


Nigeria is a free market and capitalist country and thus, people are supposed to be free to transact business within the country as they deem fit or profitable, as long as it’s legal. Food is already cheaper in the North due to proximity than South. So, is that advantage not good enough for them?

It’s time for oil and gas producing states to go for broke and demand full resource control. You can’t freely enjoy what comes from another man’s land only to enjoy what comes from yours alone. That’s pure wickedness and witchcraft!

Oga what the governor banned is wholesale of food for the sake of the security of his people due to the looming hardship. This would bring the price of food down in Niger and make it affordable. Niger has not banned the supply of other things. If you must retaliate then ban the supply of basic items as well.

oskopy:
Very soon, there will be scarcity of cash in poor niger state.the decision will have a very big side effect

Which cash? You mean the cash that is increasingly becoming worthless with double-digit inflation and four-digit exchange rate? They can return to barter economy. A bagco bag full of food items is worth more than some people's 5-figure salary. The policy is a great policy to forestall a crisis because if the starvation becomes the only reality facing the people you will see the dark side of people real quick.

Gadafii:
As long as the snail can’t disappear and appear somewhere else

Take the money and travel the world, and keep documentaries, snail may never catch up with you crawling that massive distance and several obstacles like sea, bridges, rail,etc😀

You have ruled out the possibility that the snail could creep into someone's luggage and fly around the world. A snail that is bent on finding you will eventually find you because at every point in time it will be calculating the fastest way to get to you and just when you think you are having fun the snail shows up and its game over.

Unclebayo:
Let’s hear from you

Basically, you are asking folks to sell their peace of mind for $10 million dollars. Not a fair trade. I am not trading my peace for a million times of that money.

Zaheertyler:
Before I marry we go be friends first for 2 years without sex
Your true character must show

Two years is too long...give them 6 months and their character will overload you provided you do not catch feelings and you do not get in intimate. Just drag her into the extremes and she will unravel. If you have plenty money keep it to yourself and don't give her shishi and watch. After a few weeks buy her a greeting card or complimentary card and watch her demeanor. Show up impromptu and watch her reaction. Tell her the things you don't fancy about her and watch her. These acts may seem innocuous but they can reveal what a person is hiding.

iwaeda:


https://saharareporters.com/2024/02/09/exclusive-boko-haram-ravaged-yobe-state-buy-two-tvs-two-air-conditioners-n300million

The enemy of a Hausa man is a Hausa man. The headache of a Yoruba man is another Yoruba man. The poison of an Igbo man is a fellow Igbo man. Your worst nightmare is always closer to you than you think. While this man and his cronies loot his people are dying in droves. This is also happening in every other state across the federation. The curse of an African is another African.

Has Amnesty International been overrun by pedophiles? That is the real question that needs to be answered.

Emperormartin:
As a Nigerian I will have to admit the Coach is wrong here.

He's placing Club commitment first to his nation's committee.

In football world, it's your country first then all other things follows

If the country puts you first, right? If you live in a country that puts you last or tries to kill you will you put that country first?

LordReed:


Just as Christians, Muslims and some other religious groups have indulged in wholesale slaughter. Should we label Christians has having no moral compass because of that? Or rather should we take the individual practice of the religion rather than a blanket condemnation because of the actions of a few?

¹ If you must judge a religion you don't do so by scrutinizing the adherents of the religion because the adherents may and may not have live their lives in strict adherence to the dictates of the religion. In addition, followers of a religion may bring in their subjective bias regarding how they follow the religion. Biases could come in by way of the culture, values, and socio-economic status of the followers. If you must evaluate a religion you have to evaluate the pioneer of the religion and the sacred writings that form the corpus of the religion. So in the case of Christianity, you should be evaluating the person of Jesus Christ and the Bible. In the case of Atheists, we need to evaluate the big daddy of modern materialism: Charles Darwin, and we also need to scrutinize their writings which have gone on to become the key guiding principles of atheism. Saying atheists, Western atheists, do not have a moral compass, does not necessarily mean atheists are not moral but that they do not have a basis to justify their morality and I can argue that their morality is based on Judeao-Christian traditions and values that are the basis of their civilization. In climes where there isn't a similitude of a Judeao-Christian hold, atheists may be completely devoid of any form of morality. This is why no Western atheist will consider himself or herself to be in the same group as Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Mussolini, Pol Pot, etc even though these ugly folks are all atheists as well.



Wrong. They do have a moral compass it just not the one you believe it should be.



Well make up your mind do atheists have no moral compass or is the compass different. It can't be both.



What is fundamental difference between the purpose you perceive a god gave you and the one I created for myself?
² You cannot create a purpose for yourself because you did not create yourself. If you created yourself, you would be assigned the purpose you had in mind that informed your decision to create yourself. The purpose of an entity that has a beginning always comes into existence before that entity is created. This is the case for all of man's infrastructure. From buildings to bridges to social media platforms like www.nairaland.com, anything that has a beginning must have a purpose that was determined before the creation of that thing. This invalidates the whole idea of giving yourself purpose just because you are a sentient being. If you give yourself purpose you are basically abusing yourself because you are assigning a purpose to something that should already have a purpose. This is the origin of all abuse. Now you could give yourself the purpose of being a doctor and starting a hospital to give free care to all but how will you argue against someone else who gives himself the purpose of having a marijuana plantation and smoking weed all day every day till death parts him from his marijuana plantation? You cannot argue against such a person because even you are operating from an invalid position. This is why scientists stumble at the philosophical question: "Why are we here?". A GOD-exclusionary answer to this question is very difficult and the answer to this question will provide the atheist with a purpose for existing. Until scientific materialism answers this question, all atheists have no purpose except the one assigned to them by themselves which amounts to abuse.



There is no objective way, we have to collectively agree on what morality is. Which is why words become powerful they transmit ideas of what morality should be.
³ We cannot collectively agree on what morality should be. Our cultures are so diverse that it is impossible to unify our consciousness of morality. Will a white man prostrate before his parents as a sign of respect? Will an elderly Yoruba man be called by his first name in the community by a 13-year-old? Will the Caucasians welcome the idea of drinking cow blood as a rite of passage in some African cultures? Will a Jew accept that before he can be reconciled with his estranged wife his wife must be married to another who must divorce her before she can be reconciled to her husband as is the case in the Islamic world? So dude it is impossible for us to collectively agree on what morality is without having an arbiter who is outside of our plane of existence.



Yes, functionality is a valid consideration for morality but why do you think it is limited to atheists though? According to your beliefs do you not act in ways that are considered good because of their functionality?
⁴ "Hedonistic functionality" is an intellectual way of saying "Doing what seems right in your eyes". Functionality is great but we all know that functionality has different meanings to different people. Insulin shots are functional for the diabetic but not for the bodybuilder and this is a very innocuous example. Some examples can be more barbaric. Now it is known that in some royal homes or the homes of billionaires, there is this tendency for in-breeding. This is functional to ensure that bloodlines are pure and that familial heritage is indeed kept within the family. But you and I both know we will not do this shit even if we own all the money in the world, right? This is why "hedonistic functionality" will not work as a universal guide to morality because in the end it will not result in a single objectively determined moral code".

In the end bro, you need an uncaused first cause that must be responsible for all life and responsible for all morality.

kkins25:



A study conducted by researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, found that atheists and agnostics are more driven by compassion to help others than highly religious people

The study, which was published in the July 2012 issue of the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, analyzed data from a national survey of more than 1,300 American adults

The findings indicated that compassionate attitudes were linked with how many generous behaviors a person engaged in, and this link was strongest in people who were atheists or only slightly religious, compared with people who were more strongly religious

In another experiment, participants were told that a participant before them had given a portion of their money to a stranger, and those who reported feeling more compassionate and less religious were more generous in this experiment

The study suggests that empathy and compassion are not the only factors at play in religious people's giving, but it does indicate that atheists and agnostics tend to be more compassionate and more inclined to help others when they feel compassionate.

https://www.livescience.com/20005-atheists-motivated-compassion.html

1300 American adults is a bad sample to generalize to the whole world. American adults, Christian or Atheists, have a liberal cultural background that is not the norm in other climes. Your conclusions based on this study can at best only be relevant for the American people. Again did the 1300 sample stratify at least by socio-economic characteristics of wealth and social capital, race, nationality, migrant status, and gender? Also, can you seriously claim that 1300 sample units are representative of a country of over 300 million people? I would like to see the external and internal validity of the sample used. Some researchers these days are being outed for fudging data to achieve crazy effect sizes that go on to become the basis of outlandish hypotheses (See one example here). So I still will not take your conclusion seriously until I see the paper, how the sample was drawn and how it arrived at its conclusions (which is not included in LiveScience website you just shared).

HardMirror:
This thread is for those who are matured and sincere.
warning! If you hate the truth, this thread is not for you, leave now!
It is about time you guys start using your brains biko


Each time there is a massacre of Christians, I noticed that you guys come online and start raining curses on the evil perpetrators. I 100% support your anger, but I also see these curses and prayers as foolishness of the highest order.

IF GOD COULD NOT Protect THE VICTIMS, WHY DO YOU THINK YOUR CURSES AND PRAYERS WOULD CHANGE ANYTHING?

Why are you not seeing god fight these bandits and you still have to call on government to save you? Makes zero sense.

It is time you guys realize how useless your prayers are

Peace

Those cursing are doing so out of anger and desire for retribution but they are wrong to do so. These killings are a fulfillment of prophecy by the LORD Jesus Himself: Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. Matthew 24:9 in fact Jesus in John 16:2 prophesied that: ...the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. Christians will be persecuted till the end of this age. When the souls who were wrongfully killed on earth protested to the LORD asking for retribution on those on earth it was said to them: ...and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled. Revelation 6:11 Christians in the south may think they are safe but they will also be tested by the fire of tribulation which has started to trickle on Christians all around the world.

I pray the LORD Jesus grants us the grace to go through these flames and come out unspotted defending the faith to our last breath.